When Phones Were Fun: Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness (2009)
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- From Star Trek Discovery to Minority Report to The Expanse … if there’s one thing science fiction agrees on, it’s that our collective future will run on transparent displays. So imagine my surprise when I learned that a clear-screened cellphone was not only just an eBay away … but also, over ten years old!
The year is 2009. Sony and Ericsson are eight years into a strategic partnership that has produced some of the decade’s most distinctive devices - and to propel that reputation into the 2010s, the combined company has dreamed up the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness (a.k.a. the Sony Ericsson X5). It's a tiny phone with no camera, no GPS, no removable memory ... but it does pack one feature no other phone of its time does (and no other phone will offer for the next decade at least): a transparent display!
Join me for the latest installment of MrMobile's When Phones Were Fun, featuring the clear-screened Sony Xperia Pureness!
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This is the sixth in a series of MrMobile videos exploring the mobile tech world's most vibrant period in design and experimentation. In “When Phones Were Fun,” Michael Fisher re-reviews cellphones from the golden age of mobile, the decade-long span from the turn of the century to approximately 2009.
When Phones Were Fun: Episode 6 features a Sony Xperia Pureness vintage cell phone purchased by MrMobile on eBay. No company paid a fee or otherwise offered compensation in exchange for this coverage, nor did any company preview or approve this content before publication.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness Review [Pocket-Lint]:
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness clear-screen cellphone gets video demo [SlashGear]:
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness - A Progressive Vision: Talk. Text. Time. [Sony Ericsson]:
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Quintessentially Services [Quintessentially]:
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Luxury concierge clubs offer ultra-rich Chinese the world at their fingertips [SCMP]:
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Sony Ericsson splits after 10 years in Sony cash buyout [ZDNet]:
www.zdnet.com/article/sony-er...
Sony Ericsson K800i [Bond Lifestyle]:
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I miss the time when everybody had a different shaped and sized phones . Those were the days when we truly dreamt of getting a specific phone .
Rightly said. Nowadays every phone is simply a rectangular black box...miss those days!
It was fun. Phones were more like accessories, and we had different form factors to choose from. However, I'll take the functional rectangular glass slab that is the modern smartphone any day. It is the natural evolution of hardware and software for a small form factor computer.
Nah, I rather drive to a place I've never been before using Waze instead of printed Mapquest directions. When I missed an exit, it was frustrating trying to get back on track
the reason most phones are the same these days is because the majority of those form factors suck for anything other than looking cool, especially if you want to use them for more than just calls and texting
Same with TVs.
When phones were fun, *I had money to buy one.*
👏👏
*rich guy*
Epic!
LMAO so true! Now you have to finance a truly good phone.
But they still felt expensive 😅 I remember having to save up for the better ones!
when everyone else had Nokia flip phones, if you had a Sony Ericsson, you were from the future
Absolutely...
I think you are confusing a few things here: Remember the N95 or the E90? Nokia was way more advanced than SE, only in the mid nineties, SE had a small advantage and it was actually Ericsson only. 😉
Sony Ericson T226 user around 2004-05. Ppl ALWAYS asked what phone I was using.
Damn, those days of flexing with an Xperia....
Are they around anymore?
Imagine Sony made a 6.2' version of that phone. Maybe can make it more transparent right now. Limited edition version
Lenovo made it before, fully transparent with chin and things, colored display, android, was a prototype and revealed during the fashion show in China, but then it never got officially released.
@@watchnerds keyword please.all i ever got info was on a taiwan based company called polytron.
Samsungs's on it.
Not related but a mosquito or something just bite me in the neck.
@@ManishChauhan-ch7ue u prib see this based on the new xiaomi tv ehh...
"Rich guys" 😂 That Sony Ericsson charger is giving me horrible flashbacks
I had an SE k800i and the chargers connector went bust, so I had to buy a new one, then my earphones connector went bust, and I had those small speakers for the walkman series and it's connector also went bust and all of that happened in like half a year. They all worked at a specific angle tho
@@kokili1g Oh the K800.... such memories...
@@dborked yeah such a great phone at the time. That, the nokia n95 and the htc tytn were my favorite phones that I have owned. It was a different time I enjoyed them more than I enjoy new phones now
I was so grateful when micro USB became standard!
Damn... those connectors were terrible 😂 I had a K310i as far as I remember in like 2009
Every Sony Ericsson phone gives me a nostalgic rush
Even hearing the name is nostalgic
I think Sony needs Ericsson. If they teamed up again they could make an amazing phone
Same, my parents were exclusively Sony ericsson, now iphone
Do own such kind a of a phone. Lucky bastard vedraj
Same, I always like their phone...
Transparent phones should be common thing by now, if this was a 2009 thing. This looks really cool and futuristic!
It's really easy, it just a lcd display with no backlight. The harder part is protecting the screen now and it is hard to see anything.
It's really not that easy to do. The best you could do is transparent casing for phones, so you can see the internals.
Why would you want it to be common? The fact that its transparent means everything on the screen is hard to see, because everything behind is is shining through. Why not just live in a transparent house? Just because it looks cool in a sci-fi movie doesn't mean it makes practical sense in the real world
transparency is how you ruin privacy
@Drew Madison Is watching porn in public a real thing? Why would you want to? Isn't it more relaxing to watch it in private?
that logo with the green brought back a lot of memmory's
"Like your drunken missive to an ex in the middle of the night..."
Jeez, I've never felt personally attacked by a tech video before.
Yeah me too, I have...no ex to call...no current one to call... no nothing...
5:14 What you refer to as a standard SIM is actually called mini-SIM. A full size SIM card is the same size as a standard credit card.
I remember those from the old Motorolas from the late 90s where you shove the entire SIM card into the phone.
When the mum brought a mini SIM phone from work, I was wondering how to shove the whole card into the phone.
Yeah, motorola startac use those whole credit card size sim card, i remenber my friend owned it.
Yep, you’re right. Full > mini > micro > nano. I think I misspoke because my first swappable-SIM device was a mini, so it defaults to the “biggest” in my head.
He said and I quote “2009’s standard sized footprint”, which IMO is correct.
@@TheMrMobile lets not forget about eSIM as the "Air" SIM
Back when sony and nokia dominates the phone market i miss those days. My favorite phone from nokia and sony was nokia xpressmusic and sony ericsson cybershot.
Those are lines for features, more than one model had it.
and there still HTC and Motorola back in the day too..
and maan.. i do love me some Walkman series and Xpressmusic too... the physical media playback button is soo beautiful
@@5at5una me, reading this comment on an HTC U11: oh, ok.
😂
(although I do agree that xpressmusic was amazing)
Cybershoot is best
Honestly old cell phone designs are so iconic it makes me want to get one to use for my calls and then keep a modern phone for everything else
I mean the phones were actually unique to justify the 1000$, look at us now..
What count is in the inside now.
@@doraluffy unless it's apple
@@superkamiguru5354 yeah, then it's the little silver logo on the back
Note
@@doraluffy intel wants to *say thanks*
The Sony Erricson era was the golden age for my wallet.
@JUUL Man 128gb ain't nothin'
Your videos are just so well put together, entertaining and easy to watch. Thanks again man, can’t wait for more!
My heart's breaking 🙂
This phone EXISTED! And all my life, I've been dreaming for such a phone......
Aaah, I remember this thing. Seeing this sorcery yeeeeears ago was stunning.
Holy smokes Michael, you're so dang close to 1M subs!! After following you for like 8 years, it's such a joy and honor to be watching your videos :) Stay mobile, captain!
I want a calculator with this type of screen.
I've even seen ones with both the screen, and even the keys transparent!
That would be sick, imagine a TI-84 Transparent
I only found your channel a few weeks ago but other than the Verge, you’ve very quickly become my favourite tech reviewer, keep it up!
"...like air" - oh snap! That was smooth, Mr. Mobile!
6:00 omg well hello from your fans from poorly lit casinos in Montenegro! Keep up the amazing work! 🇲🇪 ❤️
Good evening Mr Bond.
I just love this new video series that you are doing Mr.M. I am sick of the soap bars of today's world so going back in time, when phones were trully fun and very different, is a breath of fresh air.
As usual good original quality content. Appreciated 🙏
* takes sip of water *
R I C H G U Y S
When he said “R I C H G U Y S,” I felt that.
Wow, this is a phone I never knew about!
But boy do I like it, A LOT! I know there are many limitations to this, as you described, but seriously this seems more futuristic than even foldables!
Thanks for the great video man :)
Sony makes some of THE COOLEST phone! I love their vision!!! I was ITCHING back in the day to get their normal phone that had a transparent strip at the bottom. It looked amazing and was useful for alerting when a call comes it and you phone is face down, other notifications like text, and a really cool look when charging. Absolutely amazing looking! never got it but did get a google phone around that time with a micro mosaic glass back. so cool!!!
It looks like those square magnifying glass you used to find in the drugstore or on grandma's coffee table only this one fancy and black.
I missed holding this phone so much.. Just like motorola aura.
Phones really were fun and not boring back then. No matter how little it was offering, it was just so unique.
Alvin Z I like the companies going for the screens that wrap around the whole phone, it gives me vibes of innovation from back in the day
Why this kind of phone didn't evolved yet, damn, I want tony stark phone in real life
It only LOOKS cool.
Tell me, how is a transparent display on a smartphone PRACTICAL in any way, shape, or form? You have no privacy behind the display.
@@PSYCHOV3N0M that's badass. Now everyone can see the R34 I'm browsing on the bus lmao
Pairing this phone with Michael Fisher immediately made me think of when Tony pulled out his transparent phone and commandeered the screens during the hearing. Obviously I'm not the only one to have that thought come into play. haha
You can try LG Wing, its phone tony Stark in ironman.
LG wings. From ironman 1
im So living for clear displays I hope they'll become a thing in smartphones again! 🤤
Another awesome video. This is my favorite tech series now. Waiting for the next one.
This is a Unique Theme. So good to see Retro Tech. I remember shuffling through Magazines and Newspapers to find these kind of Tech gems. So much thanks to Mr.Mobile to bring this to us.
3:20 His inner Stark finally came out
cannot go to heaven nor hell
you, Japanese guy, that is completely false.
Stark’s style, liam neeson’s voice
Is that 7:48 L?
@@SirusStarTV ooof
I remember getting one Sony Ericsson phone when I was in 5 grade 2011, that was AMAZING. EVEN THE FOKIN NAME OF BRAND SOUNDS GANGSTA AND CLASSY AF
I was once owning a cybershoot series and I feel like I'm a daughter of the head of Yakuza lmao
your videos are very well made and thoughtful. And has nice deliberate pacing.
I watch them even if I'm not interested in the product.
Good job fellow Trekkie
When phones were fun is one of my favorite youtube series so far! ❤️
Oh man, I love Xperias. Too bad they stopped selling them in Australia. And this one - this one was funky and I wish I knew about it back in the day.
Buy online like me
I still use Xperia today.. For a cheap price.. I got 4gb ram phone.. I play call of duty mobile without any lag.. And the camera is very sharp.. 21mp.. I use xz1..
I like the new transitions! Keep up the great coverage man!
Whoa I still remember this. Mind blowing tech back then
The features listed are from 10 years ago, as one reviewer wrote and that was 10 years ago 🤣🤣
I love this dead pan humour, fact hitting style that makes for sharp and crisp writing
0:27 The smartphone world of 2019 was... **oops!**
I caught that too
It legit corrects it so
Same
He literally told you his mistake.
He means 2009 right?
I look forward to these videos !!! So incredible
I really enjoy these videos. Keep'em coming!
I'm enjoying this series so much. Please keep it going. Sony Ericsson was a really serious player in the Jamaican mobile phone scene back in the day. It was a very nice stroll down memory lane.
3:20 Sometimes your Trek references are such deep cuts that I think they must be just for me and I'm fine with that 🤣
That "Old Yellow Eyes is Back" reference hit me hard! XD
Same here, haha. We need a Mr. Mobile Trek Club.
6:04 speaking of James Bond and Sony Ericsson - I owned a Sony Ericsson K800i back in the day (the one on the Bond website but in an orange brownish color instead of the silver).
It was a very very capable mobile phone and I loved the video and photo editing functions.
If you have the time and if you think that it’s interesting enough, maybe you could make a video about it. I would love to hear what you got to say about the K800i. :)
Mine is still lying around in the house somewhere...
I had the K770i.
Agreed. These phones were great.
Photo/video editing, web browsing (3G!), decent camera for a 2007 phone. Good mp3 player... And compatible to a very high number of .jar Apps.
Really ahead of its time, this almost was a smart phone
AW man track id was amazing, I remember using it before it closed and you could see what others where tracking around the world, got a few new songs out of that.
You will be missed track ID
A phone Tony Stark would have used. Damn.
He had a transparent phone in the third movie
@MrMobile [Michael Fisher], this "when phones were fun" is EPIC. Thank you so much for this. Much needed, especially in today's world
I never even knew this phone existed until today! 😲
I love this guy because he has dad humor but on the professional scale💕
2:50 worth just for playing see-thru Pac-Man alone
Mr. Mobile: "The smartphone market of '2019' was..."
You might want to correct that error. Even comes up in youtubes closed captions as, "2019".
Jeff Frederick correction is right on the screen, complete with annoying sound effect
@@TheMrMobile Holy cow, that went right over my head. I was about to make a comment of my own before I saw this.
try being observant sometimes :)
Ineffective correction. The sound does nothing, as it just seems like part of the video, and the text is too far out of the way in the corner of the screen. Just saying.
@@DjMikeWatt I disagree, why would there be random text popping up if it wasn't something to read? And the sound is clearly heard but not in your face loud/annoying etc. It's all easily noticeable, you not having the awareness to both hear and see it is irrelevant. It's like complaining a game is too hard because you suck at it.
How have I never heard of this?! awesome find Michael
É, agora o CZcams não vai mais parar de recomendar esse canal.
Those were the days of innovation!!
Sony
They're still trying to innovate, you know, foldable screens and stuff. Sadly like yesterday's innovations it's not that useful (yet)
Thanks again for the 😷 shout out!
Man, that screen looked amazing. I'm glad I didn't see this phone when it came out, I would have been seriously tempted I think. I mean I got the Nokia 8810 because silver shiny and reminiscent of the matrix phone. B/W screen as well as no SMS. I even had to carry it around it's cloth pouch because I didn't want to scratch it.
But boy did it make a statement whenever I did take it out. XD
Thanks for the amazing blast from the past with this Sony. Which will always be around us... like air.
"Rich guys" 😂😂😂
I never knew a phone like this ever existed. Thanks Mr.Mobile
This was a fun video to watch.
I remember seeing ads for this phone and being utterly moved by how cool it was. However, my heart belonged to the Sony Ericsson W810i, a deliciously pocketable candy bar phone with the then vaunted Walkman ™ branding. Man, I wanted that phone in the worst way.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, MrMobile. 😃
3:20 hey there Tony Stark u deserve more subscribers
Amen!
He kinda looks like Ben Affleck too so um Bruce Wayne?
He even sounds like RDJ.
@@klym8_ HE'S A HYBRID, AND PLUS, TONY STARK HAS A SIMILAR LOOKING PHONE THAT IS "futuristic"
How have I not seen this episode before!!! I love the Xperia Pureness!!!
Just subscribed and I do not regret my decision. MKBHD recommended your channel. Love it.
Oh man, as a swede you almost "had to have" Ericsson phones back in the day. The first mobile device I ever fell in love with was the Sony Ericsson T610.
Cybershot and Walkman series was amazing back then
T610 was my first phone.....
This phone reminds me a lot of my first cell phone back in 2010. It was the LG Crystal, but unlike the Pureness with its transparent screen, the Crystal had a transparent keyboard/dialpad. I thought it was the coolest thing ever...until I remembered the iPhone 4 existed.
Still got mine stored away. Still works. One of the most satisfying phones I've ever used.
Awesome video! Never knew about this phone. Thanks for the upload.
IS THAT A MOTOROLA FLIPOUT TEASER?
dude I still have that thing I treasure it so much
The headphone antenna wasn’t really a feature. Every single phone of the time worked like that.
Bruno Lopes except iPhone
@@sherifbatawy and Chinese TV phones xD
And my Motorola L9
came to the comments say that.
Emm....wait my smartphone still works like that. So did my previous smartphone. Have i missed something here?
No, that’s not true at all. Here in the States where GSM phones only made up for half the market, there were a glut of CDMA phones on Verizon and Sprint that never featured FM tuners. Same for most smartphones of the period. Even GSM phones lacked FM tuners if the carriers that launched them decided they wanted to disable the feature to force people to use their streaming data services.
That's cool, I would have liked to own one of these back in the day.
I remember thinking I wish the screen was see-through so I could stare at and still see where I'm going.
this was good. didn't know i needed to see this till now.
Michael just needed that transparent phone to become an Iron Man
4:20 I'm ded. The cameraman intentionally drifting in and out of focus 🤣🤣
*Advance wishes for your 1 million sub!*
Ur boutta hit a million subscribers congrats!
1:18 "It wasn't clear what you were paying for"
Did you just--
I don't get it my brain is poopoo
@@Syllence ikr...
@@Syllence _clear_, in reference to the clear screen
Just wish we would see more creativity with phone design. Steve Jobs left us stuck with his initial design, and it is a fundamentally boring one, despite the capabilities.
I think its the fact that the iphone and phones that copy the iphone design simply got it right, and there's not much to improve upon. You might as well wish for there to be more creativity with a hammer, or screw driver, or a brick, or an elevator, or a bicycle. Sometimes the best and most sensible design gets created, and sticks around because its just about perfect.
I mean it's just a display that fits in your pocket. There's not much that can be changed about that without making it crap.
There is some variation in phones (size ratios, colors, front and back displays, curved screens, pop-up front cameras, flip-phone comeback, etc), but in the end of the day it's a rectangle screen, and if you try to make it a triangle it will just suck.
An example of creative phone design was the Palm Pre in 2009. Fit in your hand perfectly, as did the original iPhone, but Palm had fallen behind in the phone market and not enough interest was generated. Creative designers could come up with very fresh approaches to phone design but the huge library of apps that require compatabiliy with existing phones makes the effort useless.
Steve Jobs almost single handedly murdered the creative smartphone designs.
I think we're stuck in a period where most of the products essential designs are already adequately perfected. Planes, cars, refrigerators, guns... they're mostly looks the same unless somebody takes some effort to put some bells and whistles.
I used to own a Sony Xperia P in 2012 that had a clear touch bar where you tap on for the options/home/back buttons. It made the phone looked really cool and it was functional. I suppose the letter P was a tribute to this phone? Never realised they had done this years prior until I've seen your video!
I loved the Sony Erickson w810i. So much so that I had 4 of them(don't ask why). Best candy bar phone ever! Great camera and had an attachment for a REAL flash. Also and I could text without ever looking at the screen even while it was still in my pocket.
I literally still can't believe you're under 1 mil subs, a channel of this caliber and production quality must at least have 5 mil, the f is wrong with people?!
I am just waiting for him to get 1 million 💕🔥
Me too. It's taking way longer than it should. He should've had over a million a long time ago
Another fantastic review. Another upvote from me my friend.
One of my HS teachers had this, the screen had many scratches at that point and everyone was using smartphones already, it was still really cool.
0:29 I see what you did there, with 2020 making 2019 feel like a decade ago. 😏
"uploaded 1 minute ago"
Don't think I've ever been this early 😂
this XD
Waiting for this channel to reach 1 million
I love Welcome to Miami playing in the background
8:15 Speaking about phones with slide out Qwerty keyboards, you can go check out Sony Ericsson's line of Pro phones (ie Xperia Pro, Xperia Mini Pro, Txt Pro etc)
I remember I had an Xperia X10 mini and then the X10 mini pro came out and I wanted it so bad because the phone was so tiny that it still used T9 texting even though it was a touch screen. But my only other Sony phone after that was the first Xperia Z which got water damage due to glue coming slightly undone and water getting in even though it was rated for water resistance. Since then there wasn’t an Xperia I could justify buying because by the point my Z drowned the Xperia line cost as much as iPhones but one could argue they weren’t worth that price
Fun fact: Tony Stark has a Vivo transparent display smartphone with a holographic projector.
I was about to comment this too 😂
Darn those Chinese!!
lol, I just commented on that, kinda stupid tbh
Nice one Mr Mobile....got to see this one of a kind phone.....
Your fan here from.the Philippines....
Thanks for the review Mr. Stark😂👍🏼
3:50 "Rich Guys" I want that as a GIF.
6:27 ooh i miss TrackID.. it was a very cool feature back then to identify songs that i don't know the title, i used it a lot..
Shazam
@@samuelsanchez6082 When TrackID still worked, it identified songs way faster and more accurately than Shazam. Shazam has noticeably improved a lot since then, but there is no way to compare now. I was just so unhappy I had to stick with Shazam when they shut TrackID down, but it's better than nothing.
I would love to see a video of my favourite phone way back when, which was a HTC cha-cha. It had both touchscreen and buttons and I absolutely loved that phone
Love these videos
Want to see the flipout. Omg. That's so cool. Would take that immediatly even with low specs.
1:17 "It wasn't clear what you were paying for" -- I see what you did there ;)
Explain
@@vale4805 You've gotta be kidding...
You are the best reviewer i have ever seen on CZcams i was following u since 7 years almost i guess and watching all your video's keep it up God bless you Ameen😊☝🏻
That old yellow eyes drop